“The City of Ember” by Jeane DuPrau is about a girl and a boy named Lina and Doon who are trying to find a way out of ember, wich is an under ground city. Lina and Doon have to follow directions that Lina’s little sister, Poppy, found in their closet. The two themes I came up with are “Be carful who you trust” and “kids can exside most expectations”. The themes are prsented by Lina, Doon, and the mayors actions.
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Jeanne DuPrau’s novel, The City Of Ember, tells the story of two good friends who work together to try and escape, their home town, Ember. They face many challenges and problems that try to slow them down and make them fail their goal. For example Lina’s younger sister Poppy has no one to watch her and Lina is smart and thinks about that and solves another problem. Determination and intelligence make escape possible for Doon and Lina.
Money means different things to everyone. Money could mean power, happiness, and success to some people, but it could also mean greed, debt, and problems to others. The only way money can have value is by the value we give it. In the story “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket,” Tom Benecke had been working for months on a paper for work, while his wife went to the movies. The paper flew out the window, onto the ledge,and he had to work to get the paper back.
The mayor of New York “is moving the homeless off the streets and into Bellevue Hospital” (3). By moving all the homeless and lower class into a shelter proves that this act is a good deed. The mayor of New York did not have to help the lower class but he did anyways. This shows that we do have people in our world who care enough to help people in need. Singer and Ascher find a pint of comparison when it comes to helping the lower class.
In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien describes how soldiers physically and emotionally adapted to Vietnam. In the chapters “The Dentist” and “Stockings,” he uses irony to accentuate these adaptations, in order to illustrate that for those who fought in the war coping was as essential as surviving. In “The Dentist,” Curt Lemon’s desire to be perceived as strong highlights his burrowed uncertainty of his courage.
In The City of Ember, irony occurs throughout the story. For instance, Doon discovers the mayor’s treasure room in the pipeworks. “‘The mayor has a secret treasure room in the pipeworks’” (158). By observing this quote, we can see that the mayor has a connection with Looper because when Looper states, “‘Message for the mayor,’ he said… delivery at eight’” (31).
The television series Shameless depicts a dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher who is a single father of six children in which he spends most of his days on drugs and having misadventures while his kids learn to take care of themselves and survive with doing petty jobs to keep their house. Among the many characters are Fiona, Carl, and Frank. Fiona is the main protagonist who is like the mother of the family and maintains the family afloat but the other siblings have to do their part in the household. Carl is the second youngest boy in the family who has struggles with fitting in society and tries to find who he is by being apart of different groups. In season six, episode three of the series, each characters uses satirical and comedic devices to address social issues of poverty, society, and parenthood that is shown through verbal irony, dramatic irony and understatement.
The Pardoner’s Tale Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales which included The ‘Pardoner Tale’. This tale is about 3 people seeking death because this death had been killing people from the town. These literary terms used in this tale describe this whole tale. The Pardoner’s Tales which have a lot of literary terms like personification, allusion, and irony throughout the entire tale.
Though O'Brien's use of juxtaposition and shifts in point of view, he is able to not only show the “crazy powers of war”, but also conveys how war stories aren't true unless they are unbelievable. O’Brien talks about how believable war stories are made up as well as how “a true war story is never moral [and]... if [it]... seems moral, do not believe it” (O’Brien 65). The Vietnam war was a dark and horrific place for a lot of people, and O’Brien helps share those emotions through his “non-moral stories”. In one of the stories O’Brien describes a story where they are in middle of the jungle they heard “chamber music “ and “all these different voices…[then a] cocktail party” (O’Brien 71).
The novel “Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds is filled with examples of irony that contribute to the story’s themes and impact. One example of irony in the book is the character Will’s decision to seek revenge for his brother’s murder. Despite the fact that Will’s brother Shawn was killed in a gang-related incident. This ironic twist in the plot reinforces the idea that cycles of violence and revenge do not truly solve anything, as they only perpetuate the same harmful patterns.
Is Tupac really dead? Tupac, born as Lesane Parish Crooks, supposedly died September 13, 1996, just 5 years into his rapping career, but some people suspect him to still be alive. Tupac was a rapping Legend. Is it possible that he is still on this legendary path, avoiding his death, and still writing music?
He also needs to re-manage it if he becomes a mayor. He says to his wife, “I care about this city it’s almost bankrupt. It’s ill-managed. The infrastructure is falling apart. Everything’s ground down by bureaucratic bullshit.
Family and friends are an important part of life. In the case of Mrs. Mallard she saw her husband as more of someone that holds power over her In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, the story Mrs. Mallard has to deal with her husband allegedly dying, just to figure out at the end of the story that nothing happened to him and he is still alive. The use of Irony is really what makes this story great. Irony enhances the total effect of Kate Chopin 's "The Story of an Hour" by characterizing the protagonist, supporting the exposition and timeline, and building tension leading to the twist ending.
In the video they mention that they found dead bodies under bridges every month and besides crime and poverty they mention that pollution is affecting their children. There are many trucks going or coming from Canada and the burn of the diesel is polluting the air. Kid breath three times faster than adults and these contaminating air is deteriorating their health. But still people would not give up and they want to make this city great again like it was before. They refuse to be defeated.
